JDS (Tim) Brown (G 53-59) writes:

“I wonder whether any of my contemporaries picked up some information about Prince Philip amongst the plethora of his obituaries.

Apparently, he learned to fly in a Chipmunk at R.A.F. White Waltham, near Maidenhead, in 1952.  Four years later ‘Spike’ Cawthorn took a contingent of St Bees air cadets to the very same airfield and I have a service book, signed by him, showing I had my first flying lesson, also in a Chipmunk.  I’m sure none of us was aware that we were following in such a prestigious slipstream!

The airfield is now the largest civilian grass airfield in Europe and was originally bought by the de Haviland family before it was taken over by the government; the Chipmunks we might have shared with HRH were built by de Haviland.”

 

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